13. The Trampoline with anything but your bodies. (i.e. no chairs, rakes or toys)

Am I missing anything?

* Previously mentioned.

** This one takes some explaining, I think. At first I didn’t want the kids playing in our large tent, for fear they would wreck it. I realized that they could wrestle or jump all they want and not damage anything if they refrain from banging into the sides of the tent. So that’s the rule.

You’re so American! Everything has to stay shiney! (We use stuff rather than preserve it.) I’m a Kiwi – we tend to be a bit less ‘up tight’ – we reckon you Americans kill your bacteria too freely – we trust our bodies to knock out the bad ones themselves – not too much disinfectant!

Okay, Paul, agreed with the killing bacteria ideas (we don’t use disinfectant either), but I don’t think it can be legitimately said that my family doesn’t ‘use’ things. With six kids ten and under we commonly TRASH things.

This list is an attempt to keep the more costly things more or less untrashed.